was a Japanese actor. He graduated from RikkyÃ
 University and originally wanted to be a director, but ended up debuting as an actor at TÃ
ÂhÃ
 in 1941. He did not achieve popularity until starring in a series of youth films in the late 1940s. He expanded his acting range in the 1950s, while still frequently appearing in genre films, such as TÃ
ÂhÃ
 tokusatsu films and yakuza films at TÃ
Âei. One key role of his was in the 1964 film noir Pale Flower. Apparently, he was cast by Masahiro Shinoda despite saying that he was a "ham actor". Shinoda stated that he cast him because of his sleek features present in films such as Early Spring (1956) and wanted to feel the "quality of a man down on his luck." (at the time of production, Ikebe happened to be at home because of a bad experience he had acting in a play where he couldn't remember his lines). He was also known as an essayist. On 8 October 2010, he died of blood poisoning. He was 92 years old.
Selected filmography
Film
- The Sky of Hope (1942) - Tsutomu
- Midori no daichi (1942) - Kome Yan
- Yottsu no koi no monogatari (1947) - Masao (episode 1)
- War and Peace (1947)
- Haru no kyôen (1947) - Sampei Hayasaka
- Ai yo hoshi to tomo ni (1947)
- Sono yo no boken (1948)
- Hakai (1948) - Segawa
- Niizuma kaigi (1949)
- Koi no jusan yoru (1949)
- Shin'ya no kokuhaku (1949) - Newspaper Reporter Moriguchi Shigeya
- Aoi sanmyaku (éÂÂãÂÂå±±èÂÂ) (1949) - Rokusuke Kaneya
- Zoku aoi sanmyaku (1949) - Rokusuke Kaneya
- Kikoku (Damoi) (1949)
- Rinchi (1949) - Nobuo Sugawara
- Escape at Dawn (æÂÂã®è±走, Akatsuki no dasso) (1950) - Mikami
- Conduct Report on Professor Ishinaka (1950)
- BÃ
Âryoku no Machi (ãÂÂã³å½ãÂÂãÂÂãÂÂæÂ´åÂÂã®衠Pen itsurazu: BÃ
Âryoku no machi) (1950)
- Onna no shiki (1950)
- Tsuma to onna kisha: Wakai ai no kiki (1950) - Ryôhei Kajimoto
- Yama no kanata ni - Dai ichi-bu: Ringo no hoo (1950)
- Yama no kanata ni - Dai ni-bu: Sakana no seppun (1950)
- Akatsuki no tsuiseki (1950)
- Yama no kanata ni - Dai ichi-bu: Ringo no hoo: Dai ni-bu: Sakana no seppun - Sôshûhen (1950)
- Ai to nikushimi no kanata e (1951)
- Takarazuka fujin (1951)
- Wakai musumetachi (1951) - Kawasaki
- Nessa no byaku ran (1951)
- Hakamadare Yasusuke (1951)
- Aoi shinju (1951)
- Wakôdo no uta (1951)
- Bungawan soro (1951)
- Onnagokoro dare ka shiru (1951)
- Koi no rantô (1951)
- Koibito (1951)
- Kaze futatabi (1952)
- Asa no hamon (1952) - Niheita Inobe
- Kin no tamago: Golden girl (1952)
- Wakai hito (1952)
- Gendai-jin (ç¾代人 Gendaijin) (1952)
- Ashi ni sawatta onna (1952) - Gohei
- Oka wa hanazakari (1952) - Masaya Nozaki
- Yoru no owari (1953) - Shinji Kizaki
- Tokai no yokogao (1953) - Ueda [sandwich man]
- Ashita wa dotchi da (1953) - Saniwa
- Botchan (1953) - Botchan
- Bochan (1953)
- Chi no hate made (1953)
- Onna gokoro wa hitosuji ni (1953) - Gintarô
- Farewell Rabaul (1954) - Captain Wakabayashi
- Kaze tachinu (1954) - Eyoichi Fukuyama
- Geisha Konatsu (1954) - Kubo
- Watashi no subete o (1954) - Saburo Seki
- Kimi shinitamo koto nakare (1954)
- Ani-san no aijô (1954)
- Koi-gesho (1955) - Rikiya Kizu
- Owarai torimonocho-hatchan hatsutegara (1955)
- Fumetsu no nekkyû (1955)
- Sanjusan go sha otonashi (1955)
- The Lone Journey (æÂÂ
è·¯, Tabiji) (1955) - Naojiro Mikazuki
- Rangiku monogatari (ä¹±èÂÂç©èªÂ) (1956)
- Early Spring (æÂ©æÂÂ¥ SÃ
Âshun) (1956) - Shôji Sugiyama
- Vampire Moth (1956) - Kindaichi KÃ
Âsuke
- Kon'yaku sanbagarasu (1956)
- Gendai no yokubô (1956) - Hiroshi Tanigawa
- The Legend of the White Serpent (ç½夫人ã®å¦ÂæÂÂ, Byaku fujin no yoren) (1956) - Xu Xian
- Kojinbutu no fufu (1956)
- Ani to sono musume (1956) - Kaisuke Mamiya
- Bôkyaku no hanabira (1957)
- Snow Country (éªå½ Yukiguni) (1957) - Shimamura
- Bôkyaku no hanabira: Kanketsuhen (1957)
- Yuunagi (1957) - Kosuke Igawa
- Datsugokushû (1957)
- Shizukanaru otoko (1957)
- Ankoru watto monogatari utsukushiki aishu (1958) - Shun'ichi Kawai
- A Holiday in Tokyo (æÂ±äº¬ã®ä¼ÂæÂÂ¥, TÃ
ÂkyÃ
 no kyÃ
«jitsu) (1958) - Senpai
- Yajikata dôchû sugoroku (1958) - Ryônosuke Taya
- Daigaku no ninkimono (1958) - Coach Urano
- Jinsei gekijô - Seishun hen (1958)
- Kodama wa yonde iru (1959) - Seizô Nabayama
- Tegami o kakeru (1959)
- Submarine I-57 Will Not Surrender (æ½Âæ°´è¦ã¤-57éÂÂä¼ÂãÂÂãÂÂ, Sensuikan I-57 kofuku sezu) (1959)
- Anyakôro (1959) - Kensaku Tokito
- Oneechan makari tôru (1959)
- Battle in Outer Space (å®Âå®Â大æÂ¦äºÂ, UchÃ
« daisensÃ
Â) (1959) - Maj. Ichiro Katsumiya
- Kêisatsû-kan to bôryôku-dan (1959)
- Hawai Middowei daikaikûsen: Taiheiyô no arashi (1960)
- Man Against Man (1960) - Kikumori
- Sararîman Chûshingura (1960) - Takuni Asano
- Jiyûgaoka fujin (1960)
- Toiretto shacho (1961)
- Toilet buchô (1961) - Noboru Kasajima
- Kuroi gashû dainibu: Kanryû (1961)
- Kaei (1961)
- Gorath (å¦ÂæÂÂã´ã©ã¹, YÃ
Âsei Gorasu) (1962) - Dr. Tazawa - Astrophysicist
- Ika naru hoshi no moto ni (1962) - Kurahashi
- ' (1962) - Chikara Tsuchiya
- Attack Squadron! (1963)
- Chintao yôsai bakugeki meirei (1963)
- Pale Flower (ä¹¾ãÂÂãÂÂè±, Kawaita hana) (1964) - Muraki
- Haigo no hito (1965) - Yoshio Shido
- Daikon to ninjin (1965) - Kotaki
- Oshaberi na shinju (1965)
- Kemonomichi (1965) - Shôjirô Kotaki
- Shôwa zankyô-den (1965) - Kazama
- Shôwa zankyô-den: Karajishi botan (1966)
- Showa zankyo-den: Ippiki okami (1966)
- Otoko dokyô de shobû (1966)
- Shôwa zankyô-den: Chizome no karajishi (1967) - Jûkichi Kazama
- Zankyô Abarehada (1967) - Kyohei Shigemasa
- San-nin no bakuto (1967)
- Otoko no shobu: kantô arashî (1967)
- Moeru kumo (1967)
- Ah kaiten tokubetsu kogetikai (1968)
- Rikugun chôhô 33 (1968) - Suharut Danan
- Gokuchu no kaoyaku (1968)
- Ah, yokaren (1968) - Staff Officer Matsumoto
- Shôwa zankyô-den: Karajishi jingi (1969)
- Chôkôsô no akebono (1969)
- Gendai yakuza: Yotamono jingi (1969) - Goro's elder brother
- Tosei-nin Retsuden (1969)
- Shushô jingi: O-inochi chôdai (1969)
- Showa zankyo-den: Hito-kiri karajishi (1969)
- Shôwa zankyô-den: Shinde moraimasu (1970)
- Nihon boryoku-dan: kumicho kuzure (1970)
- Battle of Okinawa (1971)
- Showa zankyo-den: hoero karajishi (1971)
- Showa zankyo-den: Yabure-gasa (1972)
- Hikage-mono (1972)
- Bokyo Komori-uta (1972)
- Chokugeki! Jigoku-ken (1974) - Arashiyama
- Chokugeki jigoku-ken: Dai-gyakuten (1974) - Arashiyama
- àkessen kôkûtai (1974)
- Saikai (1975)
- Hi no ataru sakamichi (1975)
- Kimi yo fundo no kawa wo watare (1976) - Ito
- The War in Space (æÂÂæÂÂ大æÂ¦äºÂ, Wakusei daisensÃ
Â) (1977) - Professor Takigawa
- Tarao Bannai (1978) - Nobuyuki Kinomata
- Kaichô-on (1980) - Riichiro Ujima
- Station (é§Â
STATION, Eki Station) (1981) - Chief Nakagawa
- ShÃ
Âsetsu Yoshida gakkÃ
 (å°Â説åÂÂç°å¦校) (1983) - Taketora Ogata
- Izakaya Chôji (1983) - Horie
- The Audition (1984) - Shozo godai
- ' (1985) - Interrogator (segment "Runaway Horses")
- Hitohira no yuki (1985)
- Lost in the Wilderness (1986) - Sanada
- Umi e, See You (1988) - Nakazawa
- Aoi sanmyaku '88 (1988) - Zenbei Terazawa
Television dramas
References
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